Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-02-17
THE wITCH,s FATE.
A Cruel Prejudice or Old Times More
than Equalled Now.

Not many decades ago in this coun.
try. the people were excited over witch
craft. Persons suspected were thrown
into the water; if not witches. they would
drown; If they were witches, they would
swim ashore, and would be put to death
In any event, they were doomedl
Not many years ago if person were
taken sick with advanced disorder of the
kidneys, the physician would pronounce
the disease Brights disease. and when SO
declared, he regarded his responsibility at
an end. for medical authority admitted
that the disease was incurable.
When the physician found patient
thus. afflicted, he would say, ooh, a
slight attack of the kidneys; will be all
right in little while" He knew to the
contrary. But if he could keep his
patient on his hands for few months,
heknew he would derive a great revenue
from his case, and then when the disease
had progressed to certain stage, he
would state the facts and retire, exoner-
ated from all blame.
But the error of supposing the disease
incurable, has swayed the public mind,
long after the fact has ceased to be- But
public opinion has been educated to the
true status of the case by those who have
discounted the incurability theory, and
the public recognizes and testifles to the
fact that Warmers safe cure is specific
for this disease. This has been shown
with thousands of testimonials.
Upon referring to them in our files we
find that $1,000 reward will be given te
any one who can prove that so far as the
manufacturers know they are not genu,
inc, and that hundreds of thousands SINH
lar in character could be published, if il
were necessary.
The condition of things is very anus
ing to the journalist, who looks upon al
sides of every question. Proof should bt
accepted by all, but prejudice fight.
proof for many years. 1t seems strange
that when proprietary medicine is doing
the good that Warmers safe cure is thai
the physicians do not publicly endorse it.
Many of them, we are told, privately pre-
scribe it.
A few years ago, as stated, when man
had Bright's disease. the doctor boldly an
it. because he thought it relieved
him of responsibility.
To-day when prominent people are
dying land hundreds of thousands OF
common people die of the same disease)
we are told that doctors disguise the fact
that it is Bright's disease of the kidneys
and say that they die of paralysis, of apo.
plexy, of pneumonia. of consumption, OF
general debility, of rheumatism, of heart
disease, of blood poisoning or some othel
of the names of the direct effects of kid.
ney disease. They are not the real dis
ease ITSELF
Wesometimes wonder if they avoid stat.
ting the real cause of disease for fear
they will drive the public into patronage
of the only scientific proprietary specific
for kidney diseases and the thousand and
one diseases that originate in inactive
kidneys.
We do not believe every advertisement
we read. Some people perhaps may re-
gard this article as an ad vertisement and
will not believe it, but we are candid
enough to say that we believe the parties
above mentioned have stated their cas-,
and proved it and under such circum
stances the public is unwise if it is longer
influenced by adverse prejudice.